Surface irrigation remains a vital agricultural practice, combining tradition with modern analytical methods to address the global challenges of water scarcity and efficient water use. Recent ...

Smart irrigation systems and precision agriculture techniques can both improve the efficiency and effectiveness of furrow irrigation. We can maximize its benefits while reducing its disadvantages by ...

Gravity irrigation, by its nature, is somewhat inefficient. Runoff and deep percolation are realities that furrow irrigators must manage to keep irrigation application costs at a minimum. Application ...

With each passing year, access to clean, potable water is an increasingly contentious issue. In part one of this three-part series on water scarcity, I outlined the issue at hand. To recap, at current ...

Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station researchers are steadily improving water conservation tactics. They can now grow rice with about half the irrigation water used in levee rice systems. Chris ...

SUGARCANE farmers in Tarlac are testing an experimental irrigation system funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DoST) that promises quicker cane growth. The DoST said tests of the ...